Super Bowl XXXIX

I went to a Super Bowl party this weekend. This year's was the most of a Super Bowl I have ever seen seeing everything but the first five minutes. (I still have not seen an entire Super Bowl all the way through.) The biggest draw for me is the commercials, but since you can watch those online in much less time, the reason for going was to just hang out with people from my church. I've never been much of a TV watching sports fan. I like to go to games, but I've never really found watching them on TV that interesting. I try to remember this about myself when other people tell me they hardly ever watch movies (shocking!). We all have our likes and dislikes and no matter how popular they may be to some, it just isn't that for everyone. But sometimes it's better to pretend you know stuff than to go through all that nonsense in trying to explain it to someone. So I found myself giving tips to the girl next to me about how to convince sports people that you know sports too. You'd be surprised how much of a conversation you can participate in just reading one ESPN article (or sometimes even the headline, ha ha). But anyways, I'm not as shy about it now as I used to be. This particular party was funny because they had a nice crisp picture on satellite and a snowy smaller picture on antenna. All the guys were watching the smaller snowy television because the satellite picture had a 5 second delay, ha ha. So all the people in our room would cheer or boo and then in the next room you would hear the same in 5 seconds, ha ha. I was trying to get people to respond the opposite way to throw people off in the other room. Or just boo all at once for no reason and then the other room would be waiting for the bad news that never came, ha ha. So that's how I entertained myself at the Super Bowl party.

So the Super Bowl uses Roman numerals to count each Super Bowl. I suppose it looks really cool having all those X's, I's, and V's up there, but I wonder if they are going to stick with it. Like for the fiftieth Super Bowl are they going to put "Super Bowl L" on our screens or are they going to switch to "Super Bowl 50". I guess in eleven years we'll find out. Or what about the hundredth Super Bowl being "Super Bowl C"? Somehow it doesn't seem as cool. But at least in the near term, we can wonder for the next Super Bowl, will they be saying, this is an extra large Super Bowl because it's "Super Bowl XL"? I guess we'll see.

192!?

So I weighed myself at the gym on Saturday and found I now weigh 192 pounds! It was about 4 1/2 years ago I decided to go the gym to try and put on some weight. I weighed 140 pounds back then. So 4 1/2 years ago, 52 pounds of me didn't exist. That's more than 1/4 of my body. I was only 3/4 of a man back then, ha ha. My goal weight back then was 200 pounds, but I considered that a very high goal. Now it looks like that goal will be met without too much difficulty. I hope my metabolism hasn't slowed down. That would stink if I passed 200 and couldn't stop, ha ha. Then I would definitely have to do my transcontinental bike ride.